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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
Conducted by B. B. Wilson
NIGGLING
FINGLE-FANGLE
HETEROCLITE
4MORPHOUS
THREE "ROSEMAID" COMPANIES.
Like
Number in "Spring Maid,"
Luescher Announce.
Werba &
Jn announcing their plans for the coming theatri-
cal season Werba & Luescher said this week that
there would be three companies playing "The Rose
Merely Some Words Used in a Short Decision
Maid" and a like number in "The Spring Maid."
by a Circuit Judge.
Louis Mann will continue in "Elevating a Hus-
band," Alice Lloyd in "Little Miss Fix-It," Clara
A dispatch to the New York World from Ann
Arbor on Sunday said: If you want to read this Lipman in "It Depends on the Woman" and Eddie
Foy in "Over the River." Four new productions
get out your dictionary. You'll need it.
Circuit Judge Kinne has handed down a decision . will be in preparation for presentation by the first
of the new year.
refusing a new trial in the case of Leo Feist, of
Christie MacDonald will make a brief tour, in
New York City, against Frank M. Root, of this
city. This is an offshoot of the sensational Root "The Spring Maid" and will then appear in a new
divorce case, in which both sides introduced the light opera. Mizzi Hajos, the Hungarian actress,
famous "Ten Commandments" revised and brought who has been appearing in "The Spring Maid" in
down to date, which brought notoriety to it from the West, will continue to do so until after the
many States. The Feist case concerned a job lot holidays, when she will be seen here in a new
of music which Mrs. Root ordered for the Root opera.
Tom McNaughton and Lionel Walsh, who have
Music House before she divorced Mr. Root. Feist
sued and a jury recently awarded him a verdict. been with the "Little Miss Fix-Tt'' company, will
each star in a new play.
Root promptly asked for a new trial. The judge's
opinion refusing the request is as follows (here
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is where your dictionary is needed) :
"Motion for a new trial in this case is denied
for the following among other excellent reasons:
"First—The verdict in this case represents the
essential principles of justice and righteousness,
and such a verdict ought to prevail as against
niggling, puerile, fingle-fangle asseverations of
heteroclite error.
"It is practically impossible that a cause so re-
plete with amorphous conditions should not ex-
hibit some exceptional phosphoresance. I am, how-
ever, satisfied that the grounds alleged have no sub-
stantial foundations and that law and equity will
be^subserved by a denial of this motion.
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"E. D. Kinne, Circuit Judge."
BRINGS SUIT FOR $50,000.
Raymond Browne Files Two Suits Against
Biglow & Main, Seeking Damages.
Two suits for damages, amounting to $50,000,
have been filed by Henry Herz, attorney for Ray-
mond A. Browne, song writer and music publisher,
against the well-known music publishing house of
Biglow & Main, as a corporation, located at 156
Fifth avenue, New York City.
It appears that the cause of action is due to a
letter which Mr. Main, as treasurer of Biglow
& Main, is alleged to have written to Mrs. M. S.
Williard regarding a business transaction which
she had entered into with Mr. Browne, and which
he complains was unfair and injurious. Mrs. Wil-
lard, it appears, had written some popular song
lyrics, which, for a certain •sum, had been set to
music by Mr. Browne. Mrs. Willard, it is alleged,
submitted the completed songs after she had re-
ceived them to Biglow & Main, who wrote the com
munication which is the basis of the suit, and in
which the songs were not highly considered.
Progressive Music Dealers Carry
Ditson Edition Constantly in Stock
DR. GERRIT JSMITH DEAD.
Noted Musician Dies Suddenly in His Fifty-
third Year.
Dr. Gerrit Smith, the noted musician, died sud-
denly of pneumonia at Tokeneke Park, Darien,
Conn., Sunday.
Dr. Smith was born at Hagerstown, Md., on
December 11, 1859. He attended Hobart College
and it was from this institution that he received
the degrees of master of arts and doctor of music.
He was a boy chorister and then for two years an
organist at Geneva, N. Y. His professional career
began when he accepted the position of organist
and choir master at St. Paul's Church, Buffalo. He
studied for one year in Berlin under Haupt and
Rohde and then became organist at St. Peter's
Church, Albany. In 1885 he came to New York as
organist to the South Church and became professor
of music at the Union Theological Seminary. His
best-known composition was the cantata "King
David." He was also the author of "Song Vign-
ettes" and of numerous choruses and songs.
The funeral services at Tokeneke Park were
private, but there will be memorial services in New
York.
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